Tag: Don’t Look Now
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Kermode on… Nicolas Roeg: ‘Nothing is what it seems’
In the first of a new monthly Observer column on his favourite film-makers, Mark Kermode salutes the elliptical vision of the director of Don’t Look Now, Walkabout, Performance and so much moreThis month marks 50 years since the release of Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, a personal touchstone movie (adapted from a story by Daphne…
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This Legendary Horror Whodunnit Didn’t Get Enough Respect When It Came Out
The whodunnit subgenre is one of the most well-covered grounds in all of horror and has left us with numerous classics, but you won’t be able to find a movie more devastating in it than Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now. This movie is a mystery in just about every way, with a fascinating paranormal core.…
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‘The Omen’ Is Everything That Makes ’70s Horror Great
The 1970s unleashed a wave of classics upon the movie-going world. Indisputably a momentous era in the history of cinema across the world at large, the decade’s abundance of creative horror outings is similarly undeniable. Some of the movies hailing from the timeframe became overnight, epoch-defining sensations — instant classics lapped up by casual audiences…
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Mother, May I? review – high-end horror put together with immense amount of style
When Emmett arrives at the house he has inherited after his mother’s death, the legacy that emerges is deeply unsettling, and brilliantly depictedThis is a find. Writer-director Laurence Vannicelli’s follow-up to his little-seen debut Vera represents a classy, spare shard of quasi-horror so elevated it’s barely horror at all despite the deployment of a few…
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Criterion’s October Releases Include ‘The Others,’ ‘Videodrome,’ and More
Criterion is once again getting spooky for its October releases with a set of classics and international films that, technically, includes seven titles instead of the usual five. David Cronenberg’s body horror darling Videodrome headlines a lineup that also Nicolas Roeg’s BAFTA-winning supernatural mystery film Don’t Look Now as well as Alejandro Amenábar’s gothic thriller…
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The Wicker Man review – brilliant conspiracy chiller is a one-movie genre in itself
The satirical masterpiece goes well beyond what one expects from folk horror, with Edward Woodward as the priggish cop sent to investigate a pagan islandAfter 50 years, here is a re-release for that gamey satirical masterpiece of folk horror – although “prog horror” is perhaps a better description. Folk horror, like film noir, is a…
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Alfred Hitchcock Owes Two of His Best Films to This Female Novelist
Some portions of the internet might take umbrage with the following statement, but the fact remains: Alfred Hitchcock owes two of his best works to a woman’s mind. What’s more, so does thriller cinema as a whole. Rebecca, Hitchcock’s first American film, is based on author Daphne du Maurier’s bestselling novel of the same name,…
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‘The Omen’ Is Everything That Makes ’70s Horror Great
The 1970s unleashed a wave of classics upon the movie-going world. Indisputably a momentous era in the history of cinema across the world at large, the decade’s abundance of creative horror outings is similarly undeniable. Some of the movies hailing from the timeframe became overnight, epoch-defining sensations — instant classics lapped up by casual audiences…
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The Omen Is Peak 70s Horror
The 1970s unleashed a wave of classics upon the movie-going world. Indisputably a momentous era in the history of cinema across the world at large, the decade’s abundance of creative horror outings is similarly undeniable. Some of the movies hailing from the timeframe became overnight, epoch-defining sensations — instant classics lapped up by casual audiences…